Farm Woodland

We recently held two meetings on the 17th January. The first during the day at the Arran Outdoor Centre followed by an evening meeting at the SAC Consulting Office in Auchincruive Office. These meetings focused on how woodlands can work alongside your farming business.

  Good planning is essential to ensure that the different options complement each other rather than work against each other.  These different options would include things such as the mix…

At the recent event at Auchintender we saw that better land forestry planting and maintenance can be largely mechanised, leading to a great reduction in establishment costs. Grant income can exceed the costs and in many cases it is possible to gain extra income from the sale of carbon credits.

As well as helping to reduce the impacts of climate change and providing timber for the industry, our forests enhance and protect the environment and opportunities for public enjoyment.